Bug 848517

Summary:	Screen locking seems completely broken in current Fedora 18
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Adam Williamson <awilliam>
Component:	gnome-shell	Assignee:	Owen Taylor <otaylor>
Status:	CLOSED WORKSFORME	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	18	CC:	bugzilla, collura, fmuellner, hdegoede, knight, maxamillion, nalin, otaylor, samkraju, walters
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Description Adam Williamson 2012-08-15 19:42:27 UTC

Well, not really sure what to say here...I updated to F18 on Monday, and my system just doesn't lock the screen. At all. Ever. I left it on overnight, woke up, no screen lock. The 'Brightness & Lock' preferences say 'Turn screen off when inactive for: 10 minutes', Lock is set to ON, and 'Lock screen after: Screen turns off'. It was locking mostly fine in F17 (sometimes I got the 'blue background and one window instead of unlock dialog' bug, but actual locking/unlocking always worked).

Comment 1 Adam Williamson 2012-08-15 19:42:43 UTC

gnome-shell-3.5.4-5.fc18.x86_64

Comment 2 Adam Williamson 2012-08-16 05:04:48 UTC

With gnome-shell-3.5.5-2.fc18.x86_64 , I get what seems to be the new lock screen design - a big date/time in the centre with a couple of little grey triangles at the bottom (this is a dual screen setup), which appear to be draggable, though this isn't at all intuitive.

When I drag the whole screen upwards, I get a grey background and nothing. No unlock dialog. Typing my password blind doesn't seem to achieve anything. I have to go to a console, kill gnome-shell, and re-run it to get back to a usable desktop.

Comment 3 Robert Knight 2012-09-05 16:21:46 UTC

I've found that the ESC key will get me to the password prompt.  However, it crashes X when I enter the password.  So far, the only way that I've found back is to restart gdm.

Comment 4 Hans de Goede 2012-09-08 14:26:53 UTC

The new lock screen seems to mostly work for me, except when an app has the keyboard grabbed
when the lock kicks in, I've filed a separate bug to track this: bug 855523.

Comment 5 Robert Knight 2012-09-11 13:10:12 UTC

Problem persists in Alpha RC2.

Comment 6 Adam Williamson 2012-09-17 23:47:32 UTC

so, the bug in the original description has gone. comment #3 is https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=856256 by the sounds of it. comment #2 at the time was likely caused by using startx. I'm still seeing this symptom intermittently, but I've filed that upstream at https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=684172 . Hans filed a separate bug for his issue. So let's close this one.

Comment 7 Joel Griffiths 2013-02-20 20:26:10 UTC

I am experiencing this problem as well. I believe it's tied to mouse control when the screen is locked. I run synergys on the my Fedora box. When my mouse in on another computer at lock time, I end up with the grey screen problem mentioned here. If the mouse in on the Fedora box at lock time, I don't experience the problem. This seem reasonably repeatable (I've lost enough work to it). :) Thanks for your hard work on this. I've disable automatic lock on my Fedora box now. I don't believe this occurs with manual locks.

Comment 8 Adam Williamson 2013-02-20 20:37:18 UTC

That sounds like a rather different situation. I don't use synergy or anything like it. So I think yours may be something different caused by the use of synergy, that you should file separately.